>> 2 bytes per every character. For a 33-symbol alphabet (where 32 >> symbols are actually used) that constitutes unacceptable 100% >> redundance if compared to KOI8-R. MK> Understandable on your local system but I've witnessed how lousy MK> that strategy is on Russian sites, especially CP encoded web pages MK> that claim to be KOI8-R.
Yes, arse-headed web developers often use CP1251, but fail to notice that in configuration files.
MK> Best of luck with that strategy in the real world.
My build of glibc includes all supported codepages and locales - that means I can read (or process in any other way) text in almost any encoding. But for my own needs I prefer KOI8-R for Cyrillic and Latin characters (that's over 95% of all applications), and use multibyte encoding only for languages that have over 256 symbols.
Locale is not a property of a whole system - it's a property of every process.
-- Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin gremlin.ru!gremlin; +vii-cmiii-ccxxix-lxxix-xlii
... god@universe:~ # cvs up && make world --- /bin/vi * Origin: http://openwall.com/Owl (2:5020/545)
